Introduction to the Reprint Edition of Essai sur la Théorie des Proportions Chimiques et sur l'Influence Chimique de l'Électricité

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In 1819, when Berzelius’ Essai sur la Théorie des Proportions Chimiques et sur l’Influence Chimique de l’Électricité was published in Paris, Europe was still recovering from the Napoleonic wars. The science of chemistry had undergone an experience no less traumatic in its own way than the political upheavals of the times, only here the revolution in ideas was gathering rather than losing momentum. To summarize adequately the state of affairs in a few pages is therefore clearly impossible. But at this distance of time, certain features stand out so sharply against the mass of other detail that something may be gained by a glance at each of these aspects of the scene.

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